WTA Tour - July 17, 2009 (final results)

Among the quarter-finalists today is what you’d have to call a bit of a prodigy, Zarina Diyas. Only 15, Diyas is actually from Kazakhstan (unlike many of that country’s recent new citizens), but lives and trains in Prague. She’s ranked inside the top 300 (No. 295, a career high, which will rise quite a bit after this event. She has a good junior ranking, although she’s only played three juniors Slams and hasn’t done particularly well. She didn’t play Wimbledon last month; we’re betting she’s now going to be slogging it out full time on the Challenger circuit, despite her age.

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